hidebound
11hidebound — hide|bound [ˈhaıdbaund] adj having old fashioned attitudes and ideas used to show disapproval ▪ hidebound reactionaries …
12hidebound — [16] The term hidebound was originally applied to cattle so emaciated that their skin (or hide) was dry and stiff and clung closely to their bones. The idea of being trapped immovably inside one’s skin had led by the early 17th century to the… …
13hidebound — adjective having old fashioned attitudes and ideas; narrowminded: hidebound reactionaries …
14hidebound — adjective hidebound traditionalists Syn: conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox; fundamentalist, diehard, hardline, dyed in the wool, set in one s ways, unyielding, inflexible; narrow minded, small minded, intolerant, uncompromising,… …
15hidebound — /ˈhaɪdbaʊnd / (say huydbownd) adjective 1. narrow and rigid in opinion: a hidebound pedant. 2. (of a horse, etc.) having the back and ribs bound tightly by the hide. {hide2 + bound1} …
16hidebound — [16] The term hidebound was originally applied to cattle so emaciated that their skin (or hide) was dry and stiff and clung closely to their bones. The idea of being trapped immovably inside one’s skin had led by the early 17th century to the… …
17hidebound — adjective Date: 1603 1. of a domestic animal having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh 2. having an inflexible or ultraconservative character …
18hidebound — hide·bound hīd .bau̇nd adj 1) having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh used of domestic animals 2) having scleroderma used of human beings * * * hide·bound (hīdґbound) bound down tightly to the… …
19hidebound — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical,… …
20hidebound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bigoted, prejudiced, narrow; illiberal; unyielding. See narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unchangeable, traditional, stubborn; see conservative , dogmatic 2 , obstinate 1 , prejudiced . III… …
